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Clarkia

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A garden plant with bright flowers often grown for decoration

noun
/ˈklɑrkiə/

: Clarkia

The garden was filled with vibrant clarkia plants, their pink and white flowers attracting many bees.

I've got a new variety called Gray shell pink clarkia.

Examples

We've got some clarkia in here, which I just love that salmon color.
In early summer, the clarkia bloomed beautifully alongside the other flowers in the well-kept garden.
I decided to plant some clarkia in my backyard because of their bright colors and easy maintenance.

Synonyms

godetia

vsClarkia

Specialized

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A garden plant with bright, colorful flowers

is firmly placed in that genus rather than only sometimes assigned

Surface Forms

Clarkia singular

Clarkias plural

Etymology

Clarkia was named after the explorer Clark with the plant-name ending -ia, so you can think of it as 'Clark's flower'. Gardeners call these bright, easy plants Clarkia because of that name.